Rather Live Another Rainy Day
Rated: Pg-13
Chapter Six: The Silver Lining
Rei and Lolli made it to their apartment in record time, both of them wringing their hair out at the front door (Rei having more of a task to do) and then they went into the apartment and Rei started a fire while Lolli made them a cup of tea so that they could warm up.
Soon Rei and Lolli were sitting on a couch, Lolli snuggled into Rei's arms and sipping tea from her cup. "Remember when I said that I had to tell you something?" Lolli asked, breaking the silence that she had gotten so accustomed to in the last few minutes.
"Sure. What was it?" Rei asked, holding Lolli even closer. "Is there something wrong?" Rei looked at Lolli concerned. "Did someone do something to you while you were out on a story?"
Lolli shook her head and snuggled more into Rei's chest and closed her eyes, trying to work up the nerve to tell Rei what she had to. "Um, Rei, do you remember when we discussed what might happen if we were to have a child?"
Rei raised an eyebrow, which Lolli could see out of the corner of her eye, obviously he was trying to figure out what Lolli was talking about. "Uh, yah, of course I do. Why? You don't want us to start trying for one? Do you?" Rei noticed how Lolli got disappointed at Rei's reaction. "Lolli, don't get me wrong, I would love to have a child with you, something to bond us even more than we already were. Do you really want to have a child, 'cause if you do, I'm willing to go upstairs and work for one right now." Rei swooped down and kissed Lolli on the nose and then the check and then the eyelid and then the mouth.
Lolli giggled and pulled away. "I don't think we have to." Lolli looked up into Rei's eyes and stared into those hypnotizing globes of life. "I'm pregnant."
Rei's eyes went wide and he looked down at Lolli, his eyes full of disbelief. Lolli was disappointed with the reaction and was about to take it back when Rei wrapped his arms around Lolli and held her close. "That's awesome Lolli. How long? Just a few weeks? A few months? How long have you known?"
Lolli smiled and kissed Rei quickly. "I'm so glad that you're not mad at me about it."
Rei looked at Lolli confused. "Why on earth would I be mad at you about it. It wouldn't be all your fault. I had something to do with it." Rei nuzzled Lolli's neck with his nose. "So, are you going to answer my questions?"
"I've only known for less than a day now. I don't know how long I've been pregant, we'll have to go to a doctor and find out." Lolli took a deep breath. "Are you sure about this?"
Rei smiled and nodded. "Of course I am. I want to go through with this. Just one question."
"What?"
"Can we go up to the bedroom anyways?" Rei asked. "It's been a long week and I think that we both deserve it. Especially you. I just wish that I could do more to help you out during the next nine months."
"As long as you're right here next to me, encouraging me and staying with me during it all, then you will be doing everything that you can possibly do for me." Lolli smiled. "And lets go upstairs." Lolli purred and got up, pulling Rei up by the hand. "Come on up."
Rei smiled and followed Lolli up the stairs, smiling the whole way.
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April sat in the middle of the empty apartment, surronded by boxes and a few tables. April was sitting on the floor, her legs crossed in an indian style as she stared blankly into the air, not regristering nothing at all. Someone knocked at the door but April didn't even blink, not paying any attention to the person that was at the door.
The person knocked again, more insistently than before. April turned her head and looked at the door, not saying anything at all. She refused to get up or even let the person know that she was even there. She didn't want to have to deal with any of this at the moment. After all, she had enough problems to deal with already.
There was about ten reports sitting on her desk right now that needed to be finished or sent off or something before midnight. Kai was probably wondering where those stupid pictures of the inside of that stupid church were. Why in the hell he didn't just go with Shanna to the church April would never know.
And then on top of it all Tala, her boyfriend, the one she wanted to be with forever, was in the hospital, the person that she loved might not make it until tomorrow.
April didn't know what to do about it anymore, she didn't know what to say to herself to make her feel any better. There really was nothing to say. April had already knew that Tala's job was dangerous, he had things happen to him before like this and April had never been as scared as she was right now.
For you see, the main reason she was afraid right now was because Tala didn't know that she still cared about him. Tala had been shot thinking that April never wanted to talk to him again. Before April had always told him that she loved him before every mission, saw him to the office building that he was supposed to meet his new employer at. Before, April had never been mad at him.
But now, now it was all different, now she had been mad at him and he had gone on a mission thinking that April didn't care about him. At least before, April knew that if he died, he would die knowing that April cared about him, but now...now she wasn't sure what Tala thought.
The door knob rattled and there was a sound of a key being pushed into it, as it turned. April stood up, staring at the door, her brain trying to comprehend just who it could be. Suddenly the door opened and April felt her breath being released.
Red hair greeted April's eyes and April felt her eyes go wide in response. April didn't even take the time to comprehend what had happened. All she knew was that someone Tala was standing in the doorway, and she ran over to Tala and wrapped her arms around him and buried her head in his chest, trying to keep herself from crying on him.
Tala wrapped his arms around her too and then buried his head in her hair. "Hiya April. Miss me?" Tala joked.
April looked up at Tala, tears filling her eyes as she tried to look into Tala's eyes. "Why are you here? Are you alright? Why did they let you out of the hospital?"
Tala smiled down at April. "All I had was a bullet in the thigh, it didn't even go that far in, so it took less than ten minutes to get out. Anyways, I can walk just fine and they saw no reason in me having to take up a bed that someone else could use."
April looked up at Tala, trying to see if he was lying to her or not. Finally April decided that she couldn't tell and decided to change the subject. April looked away from him and stared at the floor. "I'm sorry about the way I acted. I should have returned your calls. I wasn't even all that mad, I don't know why I didn't phone you back." April looked back up at Tala. "I'm so sorry."
Tala smiled. "I'm the one that's sorry. I should have realized that it would hurt you if I told you not to move in with me." Tala took a deep breath. "Would you accept my offer to move in with me anyways?"
April smiled. "I would love to move in with you." April kissed Tala on the cheek. "But promise me one thing."
"What?" Tala asked as he looked down at April.
"That you let me sleep in tomorrow."
Tala smiled. "Deal."
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Kai sat in the treehouse, in his lap was Shanna who was currently trying to stop crying, not liking the weakness that she thought it was showing. Kai thought that the emotions that she was*- showing right now were beautiful, but hey, what did he know?
Finally Shanna stopped crying and wiped all of the tears from her face before Kai could do otherwise. Then she looked down at her hands. "I'm sorry about that Kai, I didn't mean to do that."
Kai shrugged. "It's alright Shanna, I don't mind having you cry on my shoulder." Kai made a motion of brushing off his shoulder. "It isn't that wet, see?"
Shanna smiled and closed her eyes, subconsciously leaning into Kai. "Thanks for doing that for me." Shanna took a deep breath. "Can I ask you something before we go home?"
Kai nodded.
"Can we call this wedding off?" Shanna looked up quickly. "Not the complete wedding but the wedding that we have planned. I still want to marry you Kai, but I just don't like what we have planned already. I want to have a smaller wedding than we have already planned. In fact-" Shanna paused.
Kai nodded to make Shanna go on. "Yes Shanna?"
"Remember what you said earlier about wanting to marry me here with just a few family and friends?" Shanna didn't need an answer to go on. "Would you actually have a wedding like that with me?"
Kai smiled and tightened his hold on Shanna momentarily and then got up and went over to the window and looked out across the forest, the rain stopping and dripping slowly doing the branches and falling to the ground. Kai smiled, the sight beautiful, just like the woman behind him.
Kai turned back and smiled at Shanna. "Yes Shanna, I would love to have a wedding like that with you."
Shanna smiled too. "Good." She went to Kai's arms and they rocked back and forth in the wind, comforting each other. "I love you."
"I love you too."
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April stared into the darkness of Tala's room in the apartment that he was going to call his own for only a few more days. Soon they would be living together perminantly instead of just staying over at each other's place when they needed to feel each other's presence long into the night.
This place felt weird for April, it always had, she had always hated it. Tala had said that him and a past girlfriend had lived here together before, that was probably what April hated about it. She didn't like the fact that he had shared something with someone else that he hadn't shared with her yet. It struck her right in the gut. April knew that it was just jealousy but she couldn't help it, it was one of her quirks.
April sighed and got up, going as quietly as she could out of Tala's room, not wanting to wake up Tala just because she couldn't get to sleep. April walked to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of water, leaning against the counter as she drank it and tried to will sleep to come to her so that she could go back and crawl into bed.
"Couldn't sleep." A voice asked, bringing her out of her thoughts.
April looked up at Tala and smiled. "No, but it's nothing really. I just need to get used to this apartment again. I haven't been in here for so long."
Tala smirked. "Well, that's not my fault." Tala took April's cup from her and set it down on the counter. "Come on, lets go back to bed. It's freezing out here."
April smiled and followed him, noticing all of a sudden that it really was cold in this room.
Tala led them to the bed and let April crawl in first and then followed her, pressing his body against hers and pressing a kiss to her neck. "Cold anymore?"
April laughed softly. "How can I be cold with you around?" April closed her eyes and yawned. "Man, you're the best sleeping pill I've ever had. Mind if I keep you on a more night to night basis?"
Tala smirked. "Sure, but you have to give up a lot of your work in order to do that." Tala nuzzled into April's neck. "Do you think you'll be able to do that? My sleepingness doesn't work on work-a-holics."
April smiled. "I think I can do that." With that April closed her eyes and almost instantly fell asleep.
Rated: Pg-13
Chapter Six: The Silver Lining
Rei and Lolli made it to their apartment in record time, both of them wringing their hair out at the front door (Rei having more of a task to do) and then they went into the apartment and Rei started a fire while Lolli made them a cup of tea so that they could warm up.
Soon Rei and Lolli were sitting on a couch, Lolli snuggled into Rei's arms and sipping tea from her cup. "Remember when I said that I had to tell you something?" Lolli asked, breaking the silence that she had gotten so accustomed to in the last few minutes.
"Sure. What was it?" Rei asked, holding Lolli even closer. "Is there something wrong?" Rei looked at Lolli concerned. "Did someone do something to you while you were out on a story?"
Lolli shook her head and snuggled more into Rei's chest and closed her eyes, trying to work up the nerve to tell Rei what she had to. "Um, Rei, do you remember when we discussed what might happen if we were to have a child?"
Rei raised an eyebrow, which Lolli could see out of the corner of her eye, obviously he was trying to figure out what Lolli was talking about. "Uh, yah, of course I do. Why? You don't want us to start trying for one? Do you?" Rei noticed how Lolli got disappointed at Rei's reaction. "Lolli, don't get me wrong, I would love to have a child with you, something to bond us even more than we already were. Do you really want to have a child, 'cause if you do, I'm willing to go upstairs and work for one right now." Rei swooped down and kissed Lolli on the nose and then the check and then the eyelid and then the mouth.
Lolli giggled and pulled away. "I don't think we have to." Lolli looked up into Rei's eyes and stared into those hypnotizing globes of life. "I'm pregnant."
Rei's eyes went wide and he looked down at Lolli, his eyes full of disbelief. Lolli was disappointed with the reaction and was about to take it back when Rei wrapped his arms around Lolli and held her close. "That's awesome Lolli. How long? Just a few weeks? A few months? How long have you known?"
Lolli smiled and kissed Rei quickly. "I'm so glad that you're not mad at me about it."
Rei looked at Lolli confused. "Why on earth would I be mad at you about it. It wouldn't be all your fault. I had something to do with it." Rei nuzzled Lolli's neck with his nose. "So, are you going to answer my questions?"
"I've only known for less than a day now. I don't know how long I've been pregant, we'll have to go to a doctor and find out." Lolli took a deep breath. "Are you sure about this?"
Rei smiled and nodded. "Of course I am. I want to go through with this. Just one question."
"What?"
"Can we go up to the bedroom anyways?" Rei asked. "It's been a long week and I think that we both deserve it. Especially you. I just wish that I could do more to help you out during the next nine months."
"As long as you're right here next to me, encouraging me and staying with me during it all, then you will be doing everything that you can possibly do for me." Lolli smiled. "And lets go upstairs." Lolli purred and got up, pulling Rei up by the hand. "Come on up."
Rei smiled and followed Lolli up the stairs, smiling the whole way.
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April sat in the middle of the empty apartment, surronded by boxes and a few tables. April was sitting on the floor, her legs crossed in an indian style as she stared blankly into the air, not regristering nothing at all. Someone knocked at the door but April didn't even blink, not paying any attention to the person that was at the door.
The person knocked again, more insistently than before. April turned her head and looked at the door, not saying anything at all. She refused to get up or even let the person know that she was even there. She didn't want to have to deal with any of this at the moment. After all, she had enough problems to deal with already.
There was about ten reports sitting on her desk right now that needed to be finished or sent off or something before midnight. Kai was probably wondering where those stupid pictures of the inside of that stupid church were. Why in the hell he didn't just go with Shanna to the church April would never know.
And then on top of it all Tala, her boyfriend, the one she wanted to be with forever, was in the hospital, the person that she loved might not make it until tomorrow.
April didn't know what to do about it anymore, she didn't know what to say to herself to make her feel any better. There really was nothing to say. April had already knew that Tala's job was dangerous, he had things happen to him before like this and April had never been as scared as she was right now.
For you see, the main reason she was afraid right now was because Tala didn't know that she still cared about him. Tala had been shot thinking that April never wanted to talk to him again. Before April had always told him that she loved him before every mission, saw him to the office building that he was supposed to meet his new employer at. Before, April had never been mad at him.
But now, now it was all different, now she had been mad at him and he had gone on a mission thinking that April didn't care about him. At least before, April knew that if he died, he would die knowing that April cared about him, but now...now she wasn't sure what Tala thought.
The door knob rattled and there was a sound of a key being pushed into it, as it turned. April stood up, staring at the door, her brain trying to comprehend just who it could be. Suddenly the door opened and April felt her breath being released.
Red hair greeted April's eyes and April felt her eyes go wide in response. April didn't even take the time to comprehend what had happened. All she knew was that someone Tala was standing in the doorway, and she ran over to Tala and wrapped her arms around him and buried her head in his chest, trying to keep herself from crying on him.
Tala wrapped his arms around her too and then buried his head in her hair. "Hiya April. Miss me?" Tala joked.
April looked up at Tala, tears filling her eyes as she tried to look into Tala's eyes. "Why are you here? Are you alright? Why did they let you out of the hospital?"
Tala smiled down at April. "All I had was a bullet in the thigh, it didn't even go that far in, so it took less than ten minutes to get out. Anyways, I can walk just fine and they saw no reason in me having to take up a bed that someone else could use."
April looked up at Tala, trying to see if he was lying to her or not. Finally April decided that she couldn't tell and decided to change the subject. April looked away from him and stared at the floor. "I'm sorry about the way I acted. I should have returned your calls. I wasn't even all that mad, I don't know why I didn't phone you back." April looked back up at Tala. "I'm so sorry."
Tala smiled. "I'm the one that's sorry. I should have realized that it would hurt you if I told you not to move in with me." Tala took a deep breath. "Would you accept my offer to move in with me anyways?"
April smiled. "I would love to move in with you." April kissed Tala on the cheek. "But promise me one thing."
"What?" Tala asked as he looked down at April.
"That you let me sleep in tomorrow."
Tala smiled. "Deal."
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Kai sat in the treehouse, in his lap was Shanna who was currently trying to stop crying, not liking the weakness that she thought it was showing. Kai thought that the emotions that she was*- showing right now were beautiful, but hey, what did he know?
Finally Shanna stopped crying and wiped all of the tears from her face before Kai could do otherwise. Then she looked down at her hands. "I'm sorry about that Kai, I didn't mean to do that."
Kai shrugged. "It's alright Shanna, I don't mind having you cry on my shoulder." Kai made a motion of brushing off his shoulder. "It isn't that wet, see?"
Shanna smiled and closed her eyes, subconsciously leaning into Kai. "Thanks for doing that for me." Shanna took a deep breath. "Can I ask you something before we go home?"
Kai nodded.
"Can we call this wedding off?" Shanna looked up quickly. "Not the complete wedding but the wedding that we have planned. I still want to marry you Kai, but I just don't like what we have planned already. I want to have a smaller wedding than we have already planned. In fact-" Shanna paused.
Kai nodded to make Shanna go on. "Yes Shanna?"
"Remember what you said earlier about wanting to marry me here with just a few family and friends?" Shanna didn't need an answer to go on. "Would you actually have a wedding like that with me?"
Kai smiled and tightened his hold on Shanna momentarily and then got up and went over to the window and looked out across the forest, the rain stopping and dripping slowly doing the branches and falling to the ground. Kai smiled, the sight beautiful, just like the woman behind him.
Kai turned back and smiled at Shanna. "Yes Shanna, I would love to have a wedding like that with you."
Shanna smiled too. "Good." She went to Kai's arms and they rocked back and forth in the wind, comforting each other. "I love you."
"I love you too."
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April stared into the darkness of Tala's room in the apartment that he was going to call his own for only a few more days. Soon they would be living together perminantly instead of just staying over at each other's place when they needed to feel each other's presence long into the night.
This place felt weird for April, it always had, she had always hated it. Tala had said that him and a past girlfriend had lived here together before, that was probably what April hated about it. She didn't like the fact that he had shared something with someone else that he hadn't shared with her yet. It struck her right in the gut. April knew that it was just jealousy but she couldn't help it, it was one of her quirks.
April sighed and got up, going as quietly as she could out of Tala's room, not wanting to wake up Tala just because she couldn't get to sleep. April walked to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of water, leaning against the counter as she drank it and tried to will sleep to come to her so that she could go back and crawl into bed.
"Couldn't sleep." A voice asked, bringing her out of her thoughts.
April looked up at Tala and smiled. "No, but it's nothing really. I just need to get used to this apartment again. I haven't been in here for so long."
Tala smirked. "Well, that's not my fault." Tala took April's cup from her and set it down on the counter. "Come on, lets go back to bed. It's freezing out here."
April smiled and followed him, noticing all of a sudden that it really was cold in this room.
Tala led them to the bed and let April crawl in first and then followed her, pressing his body against hers and pressing a kiss to her neck. "Cold anymore?"
April laughed softly. "How can I be cold with you around?" April closed her eyes and yawned. "Man, you're the best sleeping pill I've ever had. Mind if I keep you on a more night to night basis?"
Tala smirked. "Sure, but you have to give up a lot of your work in order to do that." Tala nuzzled into April's neck. "Do you think you'll be able to do that? My sleepingness doesn't work on work-a-holics."
April smiled. "I think I can do that." With that April closed her eyes and almost instantly fell asleep.